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Re: Apple Not Accepting Opera Mini on iPhone

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Want to put $100 on that?

What exactly would we be betting and how are we going to judge the outcome? new phones in the preceding month? estimates of phones in use at time t[0] and t[1]? iPhones are in the minority of total phones in use right now. What geographic area do you want to restrict it to? Remember that most of the world cannot buy and operate a 2nd gen iPhone without voiding the warranty, and if you think that iPhones are going to…

Stop me if I'm wrong, but Apple actually got AT&T to develop features on the backend of their network to get visual voicemail working.

Android was also a bid from Google to have the newly opened bit of spectrum be a "utility" band, where any device that gets FCC certified can plug into that network -- regardless of carrier or manufacturer. That didn't fly.

I would wager that's a more telling indication of who's going to come out on top of the scrap heap. The wireless handheld market is not beholden to perfect competition. Especially not within the US of A.

Re: Apple Not Accepting Opera Mini on iPhone

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Yeah, because I definitely see more geeks writing Android code than iPhone code.

Android has more developers in it's first year than iPhone had in it's first year. Give it some time... As usual, Apple won't be able to offer you as much choice in hardware as will be available for Android. And, we can already see that there will be more software choices and flexibility for Android.

Correction: Android had more downloads of its SDKs in its first year. Which isn't surprising, since anyone could download it, and it only required Java knowledge. Apple's SDK required permission to download, a signed NDA, and to really be productive, you'd need to know both Objective-C and Cocoa.

I'm guessing the number of Obj-C/Cocoa developers But real artists ship. And the Apple iPhone App Store has been up and running and selling Apps. I can't even buy the G1 in my area.

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